Aliso Niguel High School
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Aliso Niguel High School is a public school in Aliso Viejo, California. It is a part of the Capistrano Unified School District, founded in the fall of 1993. Its relatively large enrollment of 3,500 is drawn from the nearby communities of Aliso Viejo and Laguna Niguel. This school has also been credited to being a Blue Ribbon School, California Distinguished School, and New American High School.
| Location: | Aliso Viejo, California, United States |
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| Principal: | Charles Salter |
| Mascot: | Wolverine |
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| Motto: | "Home of the Wolverines..." |
| School colors | Black and Teal |
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| Newspaper | The Growling Wolverine |
| Address: | 28000 Wolverine Way Aliso Viejo, CA 92656-3385 |
| Website: | AlisoNiguel.com |
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[edit] Athletics
Aliso Niguel's sports teams are known as the Wolverines. Most of them compete in the South Coast League, at the highest level of the California Interscholastic Federation's Southern Section. In 1996, just their third year of existence, the Wolverine football team went 14-0, winning the Southern Section Division VIII championship, defeating Pacifica High School in the title game.
Now, the Wolverines have moved up a league, due to recent domination by its teams. Most notably, the track and field team has won the sea view league the past 3 years.
Aliso Niguel High School now also boasts a new, artificial turf football and soccer field. The track surrounding it is an all-weather track, complete with 9 lanes.
Also, The Varsity Cheer Squad at Aliso Niguel has Recently won first place in a national competition in their division. Coach Eric Anderson has helped both cheer squads (Varsity and Junior Varsity) become winners of many competitions.
[edit] Controversy
[edit] School dance ban
In September of 2006, Charles Salter, the school's principal, canceled the remainder of all school dances in response to students "freak dancing" and arriving drunk to the first dance of the year. Salter stated that he would bring back dances if, and only if, students and parents could cooperate and develop a solution to "the problem." This story made headlines in regional news and appeared on many dancing-related websites.
The story gained widespread, national attention later that month when Salter stood his ground and decided to ban the school's annual Homecoming Dance, which caused him to become the source of much criticism with students and parents, alike. [1]
The dance ban was covered by both the BBC, NPR and the national news program Geraldo at Large.
After not receiving their Homecoming 2006 dance, the principal reinstated the dances until extremely explicit rules that must be held to a higher degree. During the Winter Assembly in January 2007, the rules and regulations will be announced to the student body to explain the "do's" and "do not's" at future dances and the consequences of violating them. The first dance that the students are allowed to attend is the Winter Formal of February 2007. Although students are upset over losing their Homecoming dance, many are relieved that the ban has been lifted and hope that this will not happen again. Unfortunately, there was no Homecoming dance for the Senior Class of 2007.
The Spring "Peace, Love, and Happiness" dance scheduled for March 2007 was cancelled due to low ticket sales.
[edit] Book based on the school
On October 4, 2006, author Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez released a book entitled Haters, which revolves around a teenage girl who moves to Aliso Viejo, California, and attends Aliso Niguel High School. The book depicts the students of the school as all being popular, cliquey, rich and arrogant; and one of the school's teachers was depicted as being a pedophile. The book was very controversial against students and staff because of the negative light in which the school was depicted, and some students even raised allegations of slander. [2]
[edit] Notable alumni
- Sasha Cohen, Olympic figure skater
- Skip Schumaker, MLB Outfielder, Stl. Cardinals
- Ivan Koumaev, contestant on the show So You Think You Can Dance
- Josh Partington, guitarist of Something Corporate
- Derek Lee Rock, drummer for ska band Suburban Legends
- Michael Roll, basketball player for UCLA
[edit] Clubs
- Associated Student Body (or ASB) is one of the largest and longest-running clubs on campus at Aliso Niguel High School. This club is made of 40 something people who have been appointed and elected to their positions.
- National Honor Society (or NHS) is also a long-running club that looks highly upon those who have a minimum of 3.8 GPA.
- California Scholarship Federation (or CSF) is another club that looks highly upon those who have a minimum of 3.6 GPA, while completing a given amount of community service to the surrounding area.
- Academic Decathlon (or AcDec) is a club that competes in the yearly Academic Decathlon competition. No further information is available at this time.
- Junior State of America (or JSA) is a club at Aliso Niguel whose purpose is to help high school students acquire leadership skills and the knowledge necessary to be effective citizens and voters. Some might compare this to a debate team.
[edit] Test scores
2005 Results: ANHS scored within the top 90% of all schools in the state that serve 9-12th grades. 90% of all students that took the English Language Arts California High School Exit Exam passed. 91% passed in the Math section.
[edit] Performing Arts
The Aliso Niguel Marching Band has won various sweepstakes awards in local field show competitions at Newport Harbor H.S, Valley View H.S, Mission Viejo H.S, and Trabuco Hills H.S. As part of the Western Band Association, the marching band won 2nd place in the class AAA division finals in the 2005 season, and 4th place in the class AAA division finals in the 2006 season. Adding to the success of the 2005 season, the band has won 1st place in percussion in the class AAA division finals. Also, in the 2006 season, the Color Guard won 1st place during prelims. They beat the World Class guard, Beyer.
[edit] Student ethnicity
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